Janis Antonovics

Janis Antonovics ( b. 1942 in Riga ) is an American ecologist and professor of biology at the University of Virginia.

Life and research

He studied at Cambridge University and graduated in 1966 with a Ph.D. at the University of Wales from. His field of work is wide-ranging: He researches among other things, the interactions between pathogens and the host and the evolution of the underlying genetic systems, on the metapopulation development in diseases by the example of Antherenbrands (. Microbotryum sp ) on carnation plants and how diseases the limits of can affect distribution of a species.

Honors

In 1988 he became a member of the Royal Society. In 1991 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1999, he won the Sewall Wright Award. In the academic year 2010/11 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

Writings

  • Wilhelm Ludwig and his Contributions to population genetics. In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 5, 1990, pp. 87-90.
  • With CL Nunn, JL Gittleman: Promiscuity and the primate immune System. In: Science. 290, 2000, pp. 1168-1170.
  • Plant venereal diseases. Insights from a messy metaphor. In: New Phytologist. 165, 2005, pp. 71-80.
  • With V. Rudolf: Disease transmission by cannibalism: rare event or common occurrence? In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 274, 2007, pp. 1205-1210.
  • With JL Abbate, CH Baker, D. Daley, ME Hood, CE Jenkins, LJ Johnson, JJ Murray, V. Panjeti, Volker HW, VWH Rudolf, D. Sloan, J. Vondrasek: Evolution by any other name. Antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the e -word. In: Plos Biology. 5, 2007, p E30.
  • Hood ME, Baker CH: Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? In: Nature. 440, 2006, pp. E9.
  • The effect of sterilizing diseases on host abundance and distribution along environmental gradients. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 276, 2009, pp. 1443-1448.
  • With ME Hood, JI Mena -Ali, AK Gibson, B. Oxelman, T. Giraud, R. Yockyeng, M. Arroyo, F. Conti, A. Pedersen, P. Gladieux: The global distribution of the anther - smut fungus. Microbotryum on species of the Caryophyllaceae as Assessed from natural history collections. In: New Phytologist. 187, 2010, pp. 217-229.
  • With M. Edwards: Spatio - temporal dynamics of bumblebee nest parasites and Their hosts ( " Bombus " spp. ) ( " Bombus " subgenus " Psythirus " spp.). In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 80, 2011, p 999-1011.
  • M. Boots, D. Ebert, B. Koskella, M. Poss, BM Sadd: The origin of specificity by Means of natural selection. Evolved and non -host resistance in host- pathogen systems. In: Evolution. 2012, doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01793.x.
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